List of common critical illness definitions in Singapore

Common definition - list of the 37 critical illnesses
The critical illnesses definition is standardised across the insurers in Singapore. Read more for the information and reasons why the industry decided to have common definitions on critical illnesses.  


Common Definition List

1. Major Cancers
2. Heart Attack
3. Stroke
4. Coronary Artery By-pass Surgery
5. Kidney Failure
6. Aplastic Anaemia
7. Blindness (Loss of Sight)
8. End Stage Lung disease
9. End Stage Liver Failure
10. Coma
11. Deafness (Loss of Hearing)
12. Heart Valve Surgery
13. Loss of Speech
14. Major Burns
15. Major Organ / Bone Marrow Transplantation
16. Multiple Sclerosis
17. Muscular Dystrophy
18. Paralysis (Loss of Use of Limbs)
19. Parkinson's disease
20. Surgery to Aorta
21. Alzheimer's Disease / Severe Dementia
22. Fulminant Hepatitis
23. Motor Neurone Disease
24. Primary Pulmonary Hypertension
25. Terminal Illness
26. HIV Due to Blood Transfusion and Occupationally Acquired HIV
27. Benign Brain Tumour
28. Encephalitis
29. Poliomyetlitis
30. Bacterial Meningitis
31. Major Head Trauma
32. Apallic Syndrome
33. Other Serious Coronary Artery Disease
34. Angiop;asty & Other Invasive Treatment For Coronary Artery
35. Progressive Scleroderma
36. Systemic Lupus Erythemastosus with Lupus Nephritis
37. Loss of Independent Existence

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